Re: Modeling question...
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:18:49 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <35e89638-3054-4562-91df-e50b6c560434_at_s9g2000prm.googlegroups.com>
[Quoted] On Oct 24, 10:54 pm, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Walter Mitty wrote:
> > "David BL" <davi..._at_iinet.net.au> wrote in message
> >news:de0dc1e9-1953-49d9-ae84-00cab59d1195_at_z6g2000pre.googlegroups.com...
>
> >>Ok, I’ll bite…
>
> >>No doubt any data can be made to “fit” into the relational model.
> >>The more important question is whether it happens /naturally/. The
>
> > I don't understand the word "naturally" in this context. Isn't all modeling
> > artificial, rather than natural?
>
> Yes! Formal systems and symbolic manipulation are symbolic and abstract
> not natural.
The natural numbers should be called the artificial numbers :)
The word natural seems to have many meanings. There are 38 listed at Dictionary.com. Received on Sat Oct 25 2008 - 04:18:49 CEST